25 The first one came out red-looking,[a] covered with hair[b] like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.(A) 26 After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand.(B) So he was named Jacob.[c](C) Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Esau Sells His Birthright

27 When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[d] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 25:25 In Hb, red-looking sounds like “Edom”; Gn 32:3.
  2. 25:25 In Hb, hair sounds like “Seir”; Gn 32:3.
  3. 25:26 = He Grasps the Heel
  4. 25:27 Lit a man of the field
  5. 25:27 Lit man living in tents

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